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Air Pocket

Definition: Air Pocket

Air Pocket

Noun

1. A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: Air Pocket

Specialty definitions using "air pocket": health-physics technicianpersonnel monitorRADIATION MONITOR, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Air Pocket

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Air Pocket

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

air pocket

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Air Pocket

Language Translations for "air pocket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

xhep ajri, gropë ajrore. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏جيب هوائي (air hole). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

въздушна яма (air hole, bump, pocket), джоб (pocket, pouch). (various references)

   

Czech

  

jáma (colliery, hole, pit). (various references)

   

Danish

  

luftlomme (air bag), luftblaere (blister, blow hole). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

luchtzak (air bag, air bag restraint system, air cushion restraint system, air safety bag, air-pocket, inflatable airbag, overflow, vent). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ilmatasku (head space in a bottle of wine), ilmakuoppa (air-pocket). (various references)

   

French

  

trou d'air (air channel), poche d'air (air bag). (various references)

   

German

  

Luftloch (airhole, pocket, vent). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κενό αέροσ (air gap), έγκλεισμα αέρα, φυσαλίδα αέρα (bladder, blister), θύλακασ αέροσ (air hole), θύλακας καθοδικού ρεύματος. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

כיס אוירי (air hole). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

légzsák (air sac, airlock, bump, hole in the air, windbag), légtölcsér. (various references)

   

Italian

  

vuoto d'aria. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

真空帯 , 空気" (air hole), エール大学 (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aerosol, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air compressor, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air force, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, airbrush, Airbus, airline, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, airway, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くうき"う (air hole, vent), し"くうたい, エアポケット . (various references)

   

Manx

  

folmid aeragh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airay ocketpay

   

Portuguese

  

poço de ar (air hole). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

gol de aer (air hole, air lock, pocket). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

воздушная яма (air hole, air-hole, airline pocket, bump, hole, pocket). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vazdušni džep, vazdušna rupa. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bache (air hole, bump, cave, cavity, depression, frost boil, hole, pocket, pole, pothole, pot-hole, rut). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

luftgrop (air-pcket, air-pocket, bump), luftficka. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hava boşluğu (pocket, turbulence). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

повітряна яма (air hole, pocket), повітряна кишеня. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Air Pocket

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-k-o-p-r-t"

-1 letter: operatic.

-2 letters: apricot, aprotic, ectopia, erotica, paretic, parotic, picrate, pockier, pricket, tackier, tripack.

-3 letters: aortic, atopic, cakier, capote, captor, carpet, cartop, coater, copier, copter, erotic, opiate, packer, packet, picaro, picker, picket, pirate, pocket, poetic, pokier, preact, protea, protei, racket, repack, retack, rocket, tacker, ticker, toecap, troika, tropic.

-4 letters: actor, aport, apter, areic, atrip, caper.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-k-o-p-r-t"
 

+3 letters: postcardlike.

 

+5 letters: hyperkeratotic, keratinophilic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Air Pocket


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 69 72      50 6F 63 6B 65 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01010000 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#105 &#114 &#32 &#80 &#111 &#99 &#107 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0069 0072      0050 006F 0063 006B 0065 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3575842508169777186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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